Volume 5 of the Revelations and Translations series from the Joseph Smith Papers Project presents all extant fragments of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon. For the first time ever, resear

Readers of the Tanak or Old Testament see that The Lord marks Israel as a chosen people. Modern Latter-day Saints identify with being a peculiar people. But what does it mean to be a chosen people?

As Genesis marches on we are introduced to new people, whose lives are in some ways different than our own, but in many ways are similar. In this episode of Abide: A Maxwell Institute Podcast, we me

Today, Dr. Elisa Eastwood Pulido joins us to discuss her book, The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961 (Oxford U

The Lectures on Faith teaches that, a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has the power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation. But how much

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Have you ever had anyone ask you what is scripture? For such a short question it has the possibility to open up into thousands of answers. For Latter-day Saints, it can be defined as whatsoever [Go

Introduction: The world of the Old Testament, like our own day, is swimming in violence. From the direct and intimate violence of person-to-person interaction to the structural violence that reinforce

Moses 7 features Enoch, a figure that receives scant attention in Genesis, but has an overwhelming impact on the Pearl of Great Price. Importantly, Enochs experience with God also shapes how we view

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